Matt McGorry (Orange Is The New Black) has been cast in ABC’s drama pilot How To Get Away With Murder, written by Peter Nowalk and produced by Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers. The sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller centers on ambitious law students and their brilliant and mysterious criminal defense professor who become entangled in a murder plot. McGorry, repped by Gersh and Authentic Telent, will play one of the students, Asher aka Doucheface.

Mike Colter has been cast in TNT’s action-drama pilot Agent X, penned by William Blake Herron. It centers on America’s first female Vice President, Natalie Maccabee (Sharon Stone), and her secret weapon, Agent X (Jeff Hephner). Colter, repped by Silver Lining Entertainment and Gersh, will play Speaker Of The House Miles Lathem, who is privy to Natalie’s secret responsibilities and charged with oversight of them. He is filming America Is Still The Place and has been recurring on The Good Wife, The Following and American Horror Story.